Martin Weller continues to remind us of the immense impact of the super-abundance of searchable information on the web is having on learning and teaching. Martin calls this the pedagogy of abundance (see the latest Slideshare slidecast) and the...

Occasional mentions of downloadable books for electronic readers from my public libraries (GCCC Libraries) have passed in my tweet stream from one of my Twitter friends, librarian Kate Davis (@katiedavis). It was not until I received the email...

Being at a social time, 11 am on a Saturday, I joined the latest online social media seminar from George Siemens and Dave Cormier who talked about the theme of nowism, which is essentially various forms of the realtime web. A paper on the nowism trend...

I have been meaning to report on the outcomes of a question I set in the final theory exam of our CORE subject Information Technology 1 in our May 2009 semester. This subject is taken by virtually all students enrolled in my university at some stage in...

I was taken by a slide in Sean Parker’s presentation to the Web 2.0 Summit where he predicts that network services will take over from information services. The two service types are: This is a bold prediction, and although unique access trends...